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{
    "localId": "31555",
    "label": "Intaglio with Neptune Driving Two Hippocamps Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.120"
}

{
    "id": "31555",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.120",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Neptune Driving Two Hippocamps Set in a Ring",
    "description": "This intaglio depicts Neptune driving a biga drawn by two hippocamps over the water.",
    "provenance": "Sir Edgar Boehm, London, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1909, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 91; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "27 BCE-14 CE (Early Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.120",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "intaglios (sculptural objects)",
        "finger rings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.120_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.120_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.2,
            "height": 1.5,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "intaglio with gold setting: 7/16 x 9/16 x 1/8 in. (1.18 x 1.45 x 0.36 cm);ring: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm) (diam.)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "carnelian; mount: gold",
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    ],
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3214"
    ]
}

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